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Manhole Rehab manhole relining in Whistler
Manhole Rehab for Proactive I&I Mitigation

The primary objective of this project was to line the existing sewer main and manholes to restore and seal them....

January 3, 2024
Pipe Relining overhead view of compressionfit process
Water Transmission Main Replacement Using CompressionFit

The principle of CompressionFit was born of necessity and developed more than 40 years ago by British Gas and United Uti...

January 2, 2024
Directional Drilling Vector Magnetics
The Nuts and Bolts of HDD Guidance

Modern HDD jobsites fuse the latest technological advancements with the realities of getting product in the ground....

December 29, 2023
Manhole Rehab manhole rehab
NASSCO Report – Manhole Structural Rehabilitation vs. Remove and Replace

A community in Georgia was interested in either replacing or structurally rehabilitating seven sanitary sewer manholes....

December 28, 2023
Directional Drilling HDD crossing
HDD Engineering: The Nuance of Designing Complex HDD Crossings

Engineers need to remain adaptable and open to atypical designs so the limits of HDD can continue to expand,...

December 26, 2023
Last Word New West Minster Interceptor Columbia Section Rehabilitation
Last Word – What’s Ahead for Trenchless Rehab in 2024?

Aging infrastructure continues to be a driving market force for the trenchless industry....

December 20, 2023
Auger Boring SSC Underground Arizona auger bore
Boring Project Anything but Dull

SSC Underground was contracted to perform several bore crossings of box culverts and a dry flood control channel....

December 19, 2023
Canada Stantec HDD Design Direct Horizontal aerial
Optimizing Complex HDD Design and Overcoming Subsurface Challenges

The boundaries of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) continue to expand, as the industry eyes longer, larger and deep...

December 14, 2023
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For more than a century, Garver has provided multidisciplined engineering, planning, and environmental services focused ...

December 8, 2023
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TECTONIC ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS, GEOLOGISTS & LAND SURVEYORS, D.P.C.

TECTONIC provides engineering and construction support services that enable our clients to succeed across a wide range o...

December 8, 2023
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Delivering Underground Solutions for Transmission and Distribution Through Trenchless Technology

Burns & McDonnell can help you focus your underground strategy with trenchless technology that addresses the unique ...

December 8, 2023
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Utilities Create Risk. T2 Utility Engineers Specializes in Managing Utility...

Poor and unreliable utility data is widely recognized as a significant risk to infrastructure projects. Having reliable ...

December 8, 2023
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Providing Tunneling and Trenchless Services Throughout North America

AECOM provides evaluation planning, design and construction engineering services for thousands of miles of conveyance pi...

December 8, 2023
Directional Drilling PVC pipe is the Solution for More Resilient Wastewater System Reconstruction After Major Hurricane
Segmental PVC Pipe Supports Solution for More Resilient Wastewater System...

Addressing the Seabrook, Texas, Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant’s (MSWWTP) vulnerability to hurricanes beca...

November 28, 2023
Directional Drilling HDD solids
Mastering Solids Control: A Vital Element in Modern Horizontal Directional...

Efficiency in directional drilling and production hinges on the properties of the drilling mud, and these properties sho...

November 27, 2023
Rehabilitation In May 2023, committed to delivering clean and reliable drinking water to its customers and communities and to restore the severely diminished supply system’s capacity, PVWC teamed with J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc. (Creamer), to inspect, assess, clean and effectively rehabilitate the four remaining water main crossings.
Trenchless Rehabilitation Via FFRP Saves the Kearny Multiples

Over a century ago, seven 16-in. wrought iron water mains known as the Kearny Multiples were installed across the Passai...

November 24, 2023
Pipe Inspection/Evaluation Project managers at Ground Penetrating Radar Systems LLC (GPRS) use electromagnetic (EM) locators
Video Pipe Inspection & Sewer Line Mapping to Prevent Cross...

The City of Fremont, California, is the fourth-largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area at 88.46 square miles. It was ...

November 22, 2023
Microtunneling Hobas FRP Jacking Pipe
Lift Station Consolidation Made Feasible Through Microtunneling

How Microtunneling is helping Houston achieve project goals for deep gravity sewers....

November 17, 2023
Pipe Ramming remote access project near Kamloops, British Columbia
Remote Railway Pipe Ramming in British Columbia

The project consisted of the installation of 12 drainage casings, through pneumatic pipe ramming, under an isolated rail...

November 15, 2023
Business/People The Akkerman family
Golden Anniversary! Akkerman Inc. Marks 50 Years

Brownsdale, Minnesota-based trenchless manufacturer Akkerman Inc. hosted a 50th anniversary event in September at its fa...

November 14, 2023